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Galois Seminar

Friday, July 10, 2009 - 3:30pm

Hilaf Hasson

University of Pennsylvania

Location

University of Pennsylvania

DRL 4N30

Note time change. First of two talks.

This talk presents a recent paper of the same name, written by Ravi Vakil and Kirsten Wickelgren. In topology, the notions of the fundamental group and the universal cover are closely intertwined. By importing usual notions from topology into the algebraic and arithmetic setting, we construct a fundamental group family from a universal cover, both of which are schemes. A geometric fiber of the fundamental group family (as a topological group) is canonically the etale fundamental group.